San Cibola is located about three-and-a-half hours north of San Francisco. It has been called Magictown, The Big Onion, The City of Fourteen Hills. It is a large city with a population of 3 million including Chinese-American, Italian-American, German-American, Latinos, and the Te’Maroans - a South Pacific Island culture found nowhere away from their place of origin except for San Cibola.
The city gets its name from the Spanish mission that was the earliest structure. The Mission of San Juan de la Luz de Cibola was founded in 1620 and operates as a Roman Catholic Church to this day, although in a different location. The city existed for nearly two hundred years as a tiny Spanish settlement with a population of less than 3000. When gold was discovered in 1849, however, the small town blossomed almost overnight into a cosmopolitan city of nearly a hundred thousand, serving as a seaport and rail hub for all northern California.
The city grew again in the early twentieth century, when immigration was at its peak. New arrivals from Germany, Italy, Ireland and China added to the rich cultural mix of ethnicities and swelled the population. The famous Canal District was constructed between 1925 and 1940 with a mixture of private funds and Works Progress Administration monies; the project provided jobs for hundred of San Cibolians during the Great Depression.
Today’s San Cibola is a vibrant modern city, home to multinational corporations, dazzling architecture, and the arts.
Liberally lifted from Gods New and Used by Mark Finn